Asteroids A History Smithsonian History of Aviation Spaceflight Series - Taschenbuch

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, et.al.: (1968)., 1968. 160p. Text drawings by Rino Dussi. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. Nice copy. SPACE/1. Hardcover., McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, et.al.: (1968)., 1968, paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback Pages Number: 46 Language: Chinese. Rocket was originally designed as a weapon with the destructive. and then it evolved into a support for us to explore the solar system and even the person in space technology. Life. from the first literary works in space travel. to humans first step on the moon; from geosynchronous orbit to probe our neighboring planet - every year. new technologies will bring new discoveries. In case of extension of our knowledge and theory. Giles Sparrow edited ... Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back., University Press of the Pacific. Paperback. New. Paperback. 168 pages. Dimensions: 7.8in. x 5.0in. x 0.5in.CONTENTS Introduction Ancient Conceptions Concerning the Motions of the Sun, Moon, Planets and Stars The Geometry of Planetary Motions from Copernicus to Kepler The Discovery of the Law of Gravitation The Attraction of Material Bodies of Different Shapes Experimental Detection of Attraction between Material Bodies on Earth Newtons Law---The Theoretical Basis of Celestial Motion Celestial Motion and the Two-Body Problem The Concept of Perturbed Motion. Celestial Mechanics and Practical Astronomy Ways of Describing Perturbed Motion. The Variational Orbit The Problem of Motion in the Solar System Successive Approximations in the Theory of Motion of Heavenly Bodies The Discovery of Neptune Periodic and Secular Perturbations Numerical Methods in Celestial Mechanics Satellite Theory Artificial Earth Satellites and Their Motion The Motions of Asteroids Planetary Rotation Problems of Qualitative Celestial Mechanics Stellar Motions and the Law of Gravitation What is Gravitation Appendix This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., University Press of the Pacific, Smithsonian Institution Press. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 290 pages. Dimensions: 9.8in. x 6.3in. x 1.1in.Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has involved eminent scientists and amateur astronomers, patient research and sudden intuition, advanced technology and the simplest of telescopes, newspaper headlines and Cold War secrets. Today, researchers have named and identified the mineral composition of these objects. They range in size from 33 feet to 580 miles wide and most are found in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Curtis Peebles shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved. He describes how such phenomena as the Moons craters and dinosaur extinction were gradually, and by some scientists grudgingly, accepted as the results of asteroid impacts. He tells how a band of icy asteroids rimming the solar system, first proposed as a theory in the 1940s, was ignored for more than forty years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with twenty-two nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the worlds nuclear arsenal. Showing how asteroid research is increasingly collaborative, the book provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas and the ebb and flow of scientific debate. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Smithsonian Institution Press

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Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death - but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has involved eminent scientists and amateur astronomers, patient research and sudden intuition, advanced technology and the simplest of telescopes, newspaper headlines and Cold War secrets. Showing how Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death - but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has involved eminent scientists and amateur astronomers, patient research and sudden intuition, advanced technology and the simplest of telescopes, newspaper headlines and Cold War secrets. Showing how asteroid research is increasingly collaborative, Peebles's Asteroids provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas and the ebb and flow of scientific debate. Books, Science~~Astronomy, Asteroids~~Curtis-Peebles, 999999999, Asteroids, Curtis Peebles, 1560983892, Smithsonian Books (DC), , , , , Smithsonian Books DC

Hardback, [PU: Smithsonian Books (DC)], This full history on asteroid investigation shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved, describing how scientists have gradually come to agree that asteroids caused the Moon's craters and dinosaur extinction and that an icy band of asteroids rim the solar system. 12 photos., Astronomy, Space & Time

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